User talk:Nick Moyes/Easier Referencing for Beginners

Thank you Nick, this is really helpful page. I am also looking for an easy to use guide to fixing errors (red) in citations. I like WP:CS and use WP:DATE is there anything else you would suggest?--Carrolquadrio (talk) 03:43, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

I would like to second this opinion. Really awesome. I think this should be on the front page of Wikipedia to be read by anyone that wants to start editing. Wes sideman (talk) 11:57, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Quotes

@Nick Moyes: Hi. A totally minor thing, I fixed a couple of unbalanced apostrophes and changed a couple more instances of ''''blah'''', which renders as 'blah', to just blah, because it renders them inconsistently, with the trailing apo bolded, but the leading one, not. I then saw there are a few more of those "4-quote" instances in other sections. Is there a reason why some menu choices or button names should be quoted and others, not? I also note there's an inconsistency in the type of quote used – some things use a (perhaps more American-style) double-quote, while others use a single-quote (apostrophe). Shall I make them consistent and, if so, which? Or maybe just remove the already-bolded-item quoting consistently? Cheers! —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 02:18, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

@AlanM1: thank you for taking the trouble to go through it and fix some of my sloppiness! (Still a 'work in progress' is my rather lame attempt to justify myself). I can see that my 'four-apostrophe edits' were are also a bit all over the place. I intended to embolden key elements to click like Tools or Insert, but then I intended (but failed) to add single apostrophe's to highlight text that the user has to type themselves - like a quote. But it was all over the shop, though now fixed, I think. I do need to go through it and fix more bits, though now that WP:REFBEGIN has been cleaned up, it's less important than it was. Cheers, Nick Moyes (talk) 15:57, 1 October 2020 (UTC)